mountain life

Photographs and text provide information on the Appalachian Mountains, covering the topography, climate, plant and animal life, unique geographical features, human cultures, and problems facing the region.

A maid for a prominent family in Missouri chases down justice after her younger sister is one of 42 people killed at a mysterious explosion at a local dance hall in this new novel from the author of Winter's Bone.

Twelve-year-old Tom Higgins is determined to learn his father's moonshining business even though Prohibition forbids its production; but when a preacher arrives in the small Virginia community, the lines are drawn between the law and morality and the long and respected way of life of the Higgins family.

Since the deaths of her father, brother, and the first man she loved, Emily Jenkins has been struggling to support herself and her mother, blaming many of their problems on the recent construction on the power lines, but when a worker is struck by lightening and brought to Emily, she finds herself falling for the mysterious young man.

When Ave Maria Mulligan spends time in Italy and Jack stays home in Virginia to get a new business off the ground with an eager saleswoman, their marriage is tested--but Ave Maria finds help from the Big Stone Gap mountain community.

The harmony of Lily's life in the hill settlement of Stony Clove in 1851 is shattered when she learns her family has been working as conductors on the Underground Railroad and their services are needed to rescue a neighbor who has been captured by slave catchers.

The harmony of Lily's life in the hill settlement of Stony Clove in 1851 is shattered when she learns her family has been working as conductors on the Underground Railroad and their services are needed to rescue a neighbor who has been captured by bounty hunters.

Easy-to-follow Spanish and English text describe what it is like to live in the mountains.

An orphan sent to live with her grandfather learns to love both the old man and the Swiss Alps and is homesick when she goes to the city to be a companion to an invalid.

After Heidi, an orphan, builds a strong bond with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps, she is sent into town to attend school and be a friend to a wealthy man's daughter, who is restricted to a wheelchair, but Heidi's health begins to fail as her desire to return to her home in the mountains increases.